Joe Pesci is an American actor and musician best known for playing tough, volatile characters, and for his collaborations with Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro in Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Casino and The Irishman. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for playing the gangster Tommy DeVito in Goodfellas, and was also nominated in the same category for Raging Bull and The Irishman. He showed a lighter side in Home Alone and its sequel, in My Cousin Vinny and as Leo Getz in the Lethal Weapon films. He retired from acting in 1999 but has returned to it from time to time, and he has recorded three studio albums. He was born on 9 February 1943 in Newark, New Jersey.
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born February 9, 1943
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is an American actor and musician
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Goodfellas (1990)
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Pesci won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as the gangster character Tommy DeVito in Goodfellas
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is an American actor and musician
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collaborations with Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro in the films Raging Bull (1980), Goodfellas (1990)
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Pesci starred as private detective Rocky Nelson in the short-lived television comedy series Half Nelson
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